City where the world's first library was located?

Answer 1

Alexandria, Egypt

Answer 2

The first libraries open to the public were the collections of Greek and Latin scrolls which were available in the dry sections of the many buildings that made up the huge Roman baths of the Roman empire. However, they were not lending libraries.

The "halls of science" run by different Islamic sects in many cities of North Africa and the Middle East in the 9th century were open to the public. Some of them had written lending policies, but they were very restrictive. Most patrons were expected to consult the books in situ.

The later European university libraries were not open to the general public, but accessible by scholars,

A selection of significant claims made for early libraries operating in a way at least partly analogous to the modern public library is listed below by country and then by date.

United States of America
A public library building in Altona, Illinois, a small village in the Midwestern United States.In his unconventional history The Tribes and the States William James Sidis claims the public library is an American invention and states that the first town library was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1636.

Answer 3

I'm sorry to say I think this is an impossible question to answer. Keeping paper with writing upon it has been a constant of civilisations since they started recording things- but exactly when someone collected that paper for the purposes of other people reading it and using the information, we don't know. What we know is that there were great libraries- Alexandria being one- in the ancient world. But going further back, wehther there were others that noone knows of that were destroyed or whether there were none- who knows. I'm afraid the problem with history is that questions like this are unanswerable.
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Answer 4

The first "libraries" could be deemed to be temples of arts and sciences, which often collected together written information on these subjects.

The first recorded "library" would be that constructed in Alexandria, Egypt under the reign of Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BCE.

See the attached link for a full history.

Answer 5

I find your question very intriguing, but I think it was in Alexandria that existed until the beginning of the 5th century when it was totally burnt to the ground, actually there were no books but scrolls.

Answer 6

one of the first libraries known was in the city of ebla in what is now syria. this dates to about 2700 b.c. and is written in cuneiform, but in the poorly understood eblaite language.